[2] A plot of land at the intersection of West Franklin Street and Merritt Mill Road in Chapel Hill was purchased by Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal and donated to the Quakers for the establishment of a Black school, and a portion of the land was used for the creation of St. Paul AME Church.

Louis H. Hackney, a minister at White Rock Baptist Church (now First Baptist Church), established a private school for African-American children in lower grade levels (active from 1898 to 1912) located on Merritt Mill Road in Chapel Hill.

[10] The land for the new campus was donated by Henry Stroud at present-day 350 Caldwell Street in the Northside neighborhood.

[11] By 1946, the school needed to expand space and requested six to eight more classrooms because they had added the 12th grade for the first time.

Many members of the football team were involved in civil rights activism, including several who were part of the Chapel Hill Nine.